Single Member Drawing - Display
Draw side view horizontally: Normally, the side view of inclined components is also shown inclined on the drawing. With this toggle, inclined components can instead be displayed horizontally on the drawing. However, this also affects the top view, since it is always a projection of the side view. The top view will then no longer correspond to the representation and dimensioning commonly used in carpentry.
As soon as this checkbox is enabled, three additional checkboxes are activated that allow further adjustment of the representation.
Show end view (Side A): With this toggle, the front view from the left can be shown on the drawing. Whether this view appears on the left or right side of the side view depends on the chosen projection method.
Show views of all 4 longitudinal sides: The default is to display two longitudinal sides of the member on the drawing. With this toggle, the other two longitudinal sides can also be shown. However, the dimensioning remains on the two standard longitudinal sides.
Show both end faces: With this toggle, not only the front view from the left but also the front view from the right will be displayed.
Include purlin substructure: When this option is enabled, the posts, braces and purlin ties located below the purlin for which a drawing is created are also represented and dimensioned on the drawing.
Show solid points / solid lines: A volume in DICAM can have solid points and solid lines. These objects share the same color as the volume and belong to that volume. If this toggle is enabled here, those solid points and solid lines will also be saved for the drawing.
Show longitudinal direction symbol: This toggle enables a symbol that marks the longitudinal axis (X-axis) of the volume on the drawing. This symbol is typically only required for plates. Because plates can also be saved with this drawing output, enabling this symbol is very helpful.
Circles for drillings (vertical view, continuous): This can be turned on and off and is generated in the side view (A). If this side view is disabled, the dimensioning is also omitted.
This dimensioning measures drillings that run perpendicular to the primary view of the member.
Only depth-limited drillings are dimensioned.
Depending on the orientation or reference side of the drilling, the dimension chain is generated horizontally below the view or vertically to the right of the view.
Automatically shorten members to better utilize paper: Members can be very long and may contain no machining features or the machining features may be widely spaced. This results in large regions along the member where nothing interesting is visible. For such cases, these parts of the member can be automatically cut out:
The program searches along the member for areas where no machining exists. The minimum length of such an area can be configured.
If the program finds such an area, it automatically splits the member and cuts out a piece whose length can also be specified as a percentage value. The member is then shown shortened on the drawing.
The dimension chains continue to show the original dimensions. Dimension values that represent a measurement that cannot be re-measured on the drawing due to the shortening of the component are given an underline. This immediately identifies these special dimension values.
If such a dimension chain is added manually in the drawing program, the program automatically recognizes the situation and displays the correct, real measurement.
Projection method: According to DIN 6 T1 there are two different projection methods by which components should be represented on a technical drawing. These projection methods can be selected here. For illustration, the following drawings are provided:
Distance of side views: This value can be used to change the distance between the different views of the member.
Dimensioning factor: With the dimensioning factor you can influence the distances of the dimension chains. The entered value is only a factor by which the standard distances are multiplied. As a rule, even with a factor of 1 (no effect) dimension chains do not overlap. For aesthetic reasons, some users prefer larger distances. In this case increase the factor slightly (e.g. to 1.5).
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